Tag: Dracula
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Hooptober 10.0 – The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Being Film #7 for Hooptober 2023 I’ve always been an advocate for the Ebert adage “It’s not what a movie’s about, but how it’s about it.” I still believe it, and on paper what The Last Voyage of the Demeter is about is pretty cool: adapting the chapter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula about the wreck…
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Hooptober 2022 Universal Monster Drive In Extravaganza (#39-43)
Ladies and gentlemen, to close out Hooptober (well, I still have a few movies to write about), my wife and I participated in a movie marathon at our local drive-in. Every year, Silver Moon Drive-In in Lakeland, Florida uses its two screens to host Halloween movie marathons. One screen usually shows older Universal monster movies…